Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Charles Adolphus Walker and the late Maude Bochette Walker. Mrs. Barnes was a member of Alice Drive Baptist Church, where she previously served as a Sunday school teacher. She was a retired assistant bookkeeper with John Evans Manufacturing Co. and was later the owner and operator of Sumter Video Express. She was a former volunteer with Tuomey Hospital and the Crisis Closet.

Surviving are three sons, Claude L. Barnes, Jr. and wife, Susan, Ronnie Walker Barnes and wife, Natalie, and Levin Laverne Barnes, all of Sumter; a daughter, Dianne Barnes DuBose and husband, John, of Sumter; two sisters, Lillian Watford of Sumter and Leila Howard of Virginia; 11 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Chapel of the Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Clay Smith officiating.

Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home, 502 Pinewood Road.